16 Days of Activism 2018

16 Days of Activism is a global campaign to encourage and highlight important activism to eliminate violence against women and girls. Kicking off on Sunday 25 November (the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women) and running until Monday 10 December (Human Rights Day), the campaign draws attention to gender-based violence and important actions being taken to eliminate this form of violence.

Noting the gendered drivers of family violence and significant impacts it has on women and children in particular, this year the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre (MGFVP Centre) will be participating in 16 Days of Activism by showcasing some of the Centre and colleagues' important and ongoing work to eliminate family violence.

We encourage you to explore the calendar of resources and activities we'll be highlighting each day of the campaign below, or follow us on Twitter (@MonashGFV) to hear about work we're doing to prevent, address and eliminate family violence.

Advocacy is an important tool for focusing attention and policy responses on addressing family violence. We're fortunate to have a number of valued members of the Centre, such as Associate Professor Becky Batagol who promote discussions around family violence at Monash Uni events and through their research.

The face-to-face classes for the second unit of our Family Violence Prevention education initiative continue today.

Our Family Violence Prevention education courses offer a range of options for study including: professional development short courses, a Graduate Certificate and a Graduate Diploma. Information about options for post-graduate research, including Honours (Arts), Master of Arts and PhD (Arts) are also available on our website.

Family violence is a prevalent form of gender-based violence in Australia, and internationally, which is commonly experienced by intimate partners, but can also be perpetrated against other family members, such as violence by adolescents towards their parents and siblings.

Built on stories women shared and workshopped with us about their experiences of family violence, we have developed free online workshop materials for services to support and enhance their work with women with disability, as part of our project on women, disability and violence with People with Disability Australia (PWDA) on behalf of Disabled People’s Organisations Australia, funded by ANROWS.

We're very excited to announce Associate Professor Silke Meyer will be joining the MGFVP Centre in January 2019. We're very privileged to work with talented colleagues, researchers and visiting scholars at the Centre. Read more about our team and access our Capability Statement online.

Eliminating family and gender-based violence is essential to ensuring women and girls are able to exercise their 'right to life, liberty and security of person' (Article 3, Universal Declaration of Human Rights).

We are very grateful for the ongoing generosity, resilience and strength of those affected by family violence who have contributed, and continue to contribute to our research and work on eliminating family violence and all forms of gender-based violence.